Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Government Tech Policy Telstra is to invest more than $100 million in a new cloud centre in the outer-Melbourne suburb of Clayton which will create 500 jobs during the construction phase. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Entertainment iiNet has become the first Internet Service Provider certified to deliver multicast-based Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) services over the National Broadband Network (NBN). …
Featured | Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Market Embattled smart phone vendor Nokia will get more than $200 million in much needed cash by selling its impressive headquarters building in Espoo, Finland, and leasing it back. …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic This ultra cool free service by awesomely cool Internet video bigwigs, JibJab, lets you put anyone’s face on PSY’s body as he performs his global, near billion-views strong Gangnam Style mega hit, to send out to your friends as …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft left Earth about 35 years ago. It is now traveling near the edge of our solar system. Before it reaches interstellar space, the spacecraft has discovered a new region of the solar system called the magnetic …
Featured | Written by: Alex Zaharov-Reutt | Published in: Fuzzy Logic Dick Smith announced its surprise “under new management” sale for tomorrow (Wed 5 Dec) earlier today, only for JB Hi-Fi to respond through its mailing list with a “Wicked Wednesday” promotion as the titanic clash for consumer cash erupts …
Written by: David Heath | Published in: Mobility A recent survey has shown that a significant number of younger Americans use social networking in the bathroom. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People The world’s largest freelancing marketplace, Australian start-up freelancing website, Freelancer.com, says it has just broken through an “unprecedented” four million jobs posted following its recent acquisition of vWorker. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: People Global database software company, FileMaker, has promoted company executive, Willem Meyer, to the position of Regional Manager for the Asia Pacific region. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Regulation The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found Channel Nine Adelaide (NWS 9) has breached the privacy provisions of the Commercial Television Industry Code of Practice 2010 by identifying a family involved in a home birth. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market French 3D design software company, Dassault Systèmes, and its Australian partner, MEMKO, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) to collaborate in the development of a new Master of Engineering degree program in Computer …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Deals The fast growing mobile device management (MDM) market just got a whole lot hotter. The market has been dominated by small startups, but now one of them has been acquired by major virtualisation and thin client vendor Citrix. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Networking Aruba Network has announced a new wireless LAN platform that it says addresses the explosion of mobile applications and devices challenging enterprise networks, while dramatically reducing enterprise IT costs. …
Featured | Written by: William Atkins | Published in: Space Astronomers are predicting over 50 meteor per hour should be seen at the peak of the Geminid meteor shower; that’s just under 1 meteor per minute. So, with a clear sky and good weather conditions you should have a good time …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Asia Pacific manufacturers are expected to embrace new technologies over the next 12 months to facilitate their entry into new markets and as they look to reduce costs by considering a shift to low-cost manufacturing centres in Asia or other regions. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market The trade body for Australia’s Digital Content, Services and Applications Industry, the Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA), has launched what it says is the first comprehensive and independent digital industry salary survey. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Deals One of the world’s largest business applications companies, Infor, has acquired Australian Market Resource Management (MRM) business, Orbis Global. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Global unified web, email mobile security and data loss prevention company, Websense, has now released its ACE in the Cloud for Triton architecture which it says “changes the game” for securing of networks, with organisations now easily able to add, through the …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Technology The bring-your-own-device bandwagon is rolling along quite nicely and could be heading to a point where the great mass of the workforce will be using smartphones in their work – with significant economic benefits. …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Global website marketplace, Flippa.com, which claims $2 million worth of website and domain trades every month, has launched a new listing system that it says will make the process simpler and increase the chance of making a sale. …
Featured | Written by: David Swan | Published in: Mobility Google today announced an expansion of its app store Google Play to allow private app channels for Google Apps customers. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Networking Optus and its new partner Connectem are trialling cloud-based mobile packet core technology to rapidly deploy network capacity in response to customer demand. …
Written by: Stuart Corner | Published in: Cornered! There seems to be no end to the emergence of disruptive forces threatening to radically reshape the telecoms industry. The latest is WebRTC and its impact will be huge but not as damaging to telcos as some pundits predict. …
Written by: David Swan | Published in: Mobility Social networking behemoth Facebook has fired a salvo to mobile messaging servers, with the company now allowing users to send messages from their mobile without even having a Facebook account. …
Written by: Graeme Philipson | Published in: Regulation The 12th World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT‑12), has opened in Dubai and will run until 14 December. Normally such events attract little attention, but this one has a high profile because of proposals from some countries for greater control over the …
Written by: Peter Dinham | Published in: Market Secure enterprise mobility provider, Good Technology has launched Good Vault, its first product built on its newly introduced Good Trust mobile identity and access management (IAM) platform. …